Matter would have been contained
***Then matter is a part of “space*time”. And observing matter going faster than the speed of light is simpler than observing “space*time” going faster than the speed of light and observing Time going faster than Time.
Or are you somehow postulating that Matter is NOT a part of “space*time”????
Forgot to ping you, babygene, since you were the original poster who brought up this issue.
Do you think matter is a part of “space*time”? And observing matter going faster than the speed of light is simpler than observing “space*time” going faster than the speed of light and observing Time going faster than Time?
In the very early universe of the inflationary model, the universe expanded from a singularity to about the size of a grapefruit at a rate faster than the speed of light.
The point is moot except for conjecture involving faster than light (FTL) travel whether spacecraft or photon.
The former case would entail a geometric solution thus scifi scripts involving bending of space/time, wormholes, etc.
The latter is a real world quandary when considering quantum entanglement which is to say where the quantum states of two or more objects have to be described with reference to one another regardless of the extent to which they may be spatially separated.
In sum, the measurement of one of two entangled photons will determine the other even if it is 10 kilometers away, on the moon, in another galaxy, etc. This violates the speed of light limitation but the solution, I suspect, rests with higher dimensional dynamics. In other words, the photon is not moving faster than the speed of light in 4D.